Two-wheeled vehicle



(No Model.)

0. 0. HAYES. TWO WHEELED VEHICLE.

N0. 424,297. Patented Mar. 25, 1890.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES C. HAYES, OF PENN YAN, NEW YORK.

TWO-WHEELED VEHICLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 424,297, dated March 25, 1890.

Application filed December 28, 1889. Serial N e. 335 ,247. (No model.)

To (ZZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES C. HAYES, a citizen of the United States, residing at Penn Yan, in the county of Yates and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Running-Gears; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a partof this specification, and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in running-gears for vehicles; and it has for its object, among others, to provide a simply-constructed and easy-riding vehicle in which the shafts or thills shall have free play on the axle, not being fixedly connected therewith. I thus do away with the so-called horse motion and form an easy-riding vehicle. There are also certain other novel features of construction and arrangements of parts, which will hereinafter be made apparent.

The novelty in the present instance resides in the peculiarities of construction and the combinations, arrangement, and adaptation of parts, all as more fully hereinafter described, shown in the drawings, and then particularly pointed out. in the appended claims.

The invention is clearly illustrated in the accompanying drawings, which, with the letters of reference marked thereon, form a part of this specification, and in which Figure l is a side elevation illustrating my invention.- Fig. 2 is a top plan of a portion of the running-gear of a vehicle embodying my invention. Fig. 3 is a detail part, in side elevation and partly in section, showing a modified form of spring. Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the axle-yoke detached.

Like letters of reference indicate like parts in the several views.

Referring now to the details of the drawings by letter, A designates the body, (shown by dotted lines,) and B the shafts or thills. These thills or shafts are bent downward, as shown at a, and at their rear ends are not at tached to the axle, but are supported in the following manner.

C is the axle, and near eachend thereof, in

line with the rear ends of the shafts or thills, is secured a yoke D, substantially L-shaped, as shown in Figs. 1 and 4. This yoke is supported by means of its lower arm on the axle, to which it is secured by suitable bolts or clips, and upon these yokes rest the rear ends of the shafts or thills, as shown in Fig. 1, the upper arm of the yoke bearing on the upper face of the shafts or thills and preventing upward movement thereof. By this construction the shafts or thills are free to play endwise sufficiently to accomplish the desired result, and yet are prevented from accidental displacement.

E are springs attached at their forward ends to the under side of the shafts or thills in any suitable manner and at their rear ends to the under side of the axle near the ends thereof.

F are substantially semi-elliptic springs attached to the under side of the rear of the body and to the axle, preferably by bolts or clips, as shown. These springs maybe either of the form shown in Fig. 1 or that shown in Fig. 3.

The springs E and the L-shaped yoke are preferably secured by the same bolts or clips.

G is a transverse spring or rod attached to the under side of the forward portion of the body, and having its ends loosely engaged in the eyes H on the under side of the shafts or thills, the said transverse shaft being designed to work loosely in the said eyes.

The springs E may sometimes be dispensed with without affecting the operation of the other parts.

hat I claim as new is 1. The combination, with the axle and the yokes thereon, of the springs attached to the under side of the axle beneath the yokes, the shafts having their rear ends unattached within the said yokes and free to play endwise in a horizontal plane, and having the forward ends of the said springs attached to the under side thereof forward of the axle, substantially as described.

2. The combination, with the body, the axle, and the shafts, of the semi-elliptic springs connecting the rear end of the body with the axle, and the transverse spring or rod attached to the forward portion of the body with its ends loosely working in loop-eyes on the under side of the shafts, substantially as deshafts,andthespringsbeneath the shafts conscribed.

necting the same with the axle, substantially 3. The combination, With the body, the axle, as specified. the shafts, and the yokes on the axle and In testimony that I claim the above I have 5 loosely confining the rear ends of the shafts, hereunto subscribed my name in the presence I5 of the semi-elliptic springs connecting the of two Witnesses.

rear end of the body With the axle, the trans- CHARLES C. HAYES. Verse spring or rod attached to the forward \Vitnesses: portion of the body with its ends Working OLIVER H. STARK,

1o loosely in loop-eyes on the under side of the FRANK R. DURRY. 

